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Denus to the lyon of England and tribe of Judah and to the covenant, law, and testimony : also his calling, authority, consent and office : together with the oracles of God and his requiem.
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DENUS TO THE LYON of ENGLAND AND TRIBE of JUDAH And to the Covenant Law and Testimony Also his Calling Authority Consent and Office Together with the Oracles of God and his Requiem London printed for H. Hasilwood 1651. DENUS TO THE LYON of ENGLAND AND TRIBE of JUDAH c. MAL. 3. VERS 1. Behold I send my Messenger and he shall prepare my way before mee NOw to declare this Parable or dark Sentence from above God hath ever had one fore-going messenger or other to declare from him the things he hath and will shortly effect For the time past those 2 Prophets Elijah Isaiah did see afar off God manifest in the flesh prophesied declared of a Savior to come likewise John in the Gospel our Saviour calleth him his messenger Now there is one more to come which is the messenger of the Covenant In whom ye delight he shall come saith the Lord of Hosts and he is beautiful that bringeth glad tydings os salvation Now in this Christ appeared as the messenger of God in man that was manifest in flesh and we are not to expect him any more as a messenger or Messia for that expectation 〈◊〉 to this present day doth over-vail our brethren the Jewes the Gospel declared of Moses who lifted up the brazen Altar in the Wilderness so we must bear up his Scepter and hold it forth to all and this must first be done by a called messenger For behold I send my messenger before he shall prepare the way before me The Lord saith John was a burning and shâ—ning light but I have a greater Witness then that of John Now this last messenger his Calling and Office is to stand up for all Christ his Royalties Dignities Glories Majesties Worships Honours Graces Excellencies Priviledges Powers Regal Rights and Prerogatives and to proclaim him King upon his Throne Secondly To vindicate his power Thirdly To set up his pure Disciplined Church Fourthly To shun no flesh for favour or affection but to come near them in judgment Fifthly He is to make known all abominations that maketh desolation Sixthly He must give the Beast her deadly wound Seventhly He must make known the feast of Tabernacles for a tie of peace community and rest to come Eighthly He must be a Leader to Jew and Gentile and shew forth the true way Ninthly He must discover the man of sin and his falling away and mystery of iniquity Tenthly He is to declare a visible return of the Jewes cut of their captivity Eleventhly He must shew forth professe and declare the visible Kingdom of Christ which shall be an Ocean of people Nations and Languages called the Remnant of all the Tribes Twelfthly This messenger is to make known the day of the Lord and his acceptable year and that iâ— now in this year declared by revelation from Him to his servant That this is the Year One thousand six hundred and fifty which hath so appeared to his messenger by a power received from him who is God and will suddainly come to his Temple and will recompense all the wrongs done to his people Behold he shall come saith the Lord of Hosts but who may abide the day of his coming First He cometh with his Ordinances of Truth to let them know Judgment must first begin at his own house Secondly He will suddenly come to his Temple he is yet coming and who shall stand when he appeareth by a more higher shining light Behold I send my messenger and he shall gather the people Gen. 49.8 Judah thou art he whom thy brethren shall praise thy hand shall be in the neck of thine Enemies thy Fathers children shall bow down before thee Judah thou art as a Lyon from the prey and shalt stand up for the Scepter shall not depart from Judah nor a Law giver from betwixt his feet untill Shiloah come and unto him shall the gathering of the people be So that we find this Tribe of the Lyon of Judah shall gather in all the lost Tribes That Judah and the whole Israel of God may be one and one King one people Further we find in Zach. 12. In the last dayes there shall be a great mourning of the Tribes for the restoring of Judah and their mourning is the greater being apart from their former enjoyments as they were Tribes according to their Fathers inheritance but saith the Lord Jer. 31.16 Refrain thy voyce from weeping and thine eyes from tears for thy works shall be rewarded saith the Lord for there is hope in thine and that thy Children shall come again to their own borders Behold he cometh that shall redeem Israel he cometh in spiritual brightness gather your selves together ye scattered Tribes for now is the day of his appearing for he will now certainly burn up the earth by a spirituall burning ye tâ—◠〈◊〉 of Israel that have given your Power â—o the Beasâ— come out of her and see the brightness of his coming and all ye Tribes repair to your Tribe of the Lyon of Judah for ye must all grist into it All the sticks must become one stick in his hand Ezek. 37.16 There the Word saith Moreover thou Son of Man take unto thy self one stick and write upon it for Judah and for the Children of Israel his companions then take another stick and write upon it for Joseph and all the house of Israel his companions Now when all these Tribes are companions of brother-hood are united to the Son of Man being one in his hand then he shall go forth with them as a mighty Lyon of their Tribe to rend and to tear in pieces all the Antichristian powers and every power that exalteth it self against God Now this Tribe shall be an invincible Tribe being of one heart and God saith I will make them one Nation in the Land and will take the children of Israel from the Heathen whither her they be gone and I will bring them to their own Land This God will do by a spiritual power Behold he cometh gather your selves in Troopes ye holy ones of the Lord for 〈◊〉 Tribe Judah and he shall gather the peâ—ple and hâ— is the Messenger of the Covenant 〈◊〉 whom he delights Now this is the promise unto all the godly The Son of Righteousness shall arise unto them with healing in his Wings but unto the wicked behold he cometh he cometh in fury and burning he cometh in brightness to discover all the dark corners of the earth of sin and all subtilty and will try the spirits of men for behold his power shall burn as an Oven and the wicked shall be burnt up for I will come neer you to judgment and will 〈◊〉 swift witness against all sin and â—orcerâ— that no man may say I am free from shaking for he will shake Heaven and Earth so terribly that his very Elect shall tremble and the constellations of all things shall fail before him he will exâ—eâ—◠〈◊〉 â—â—â—gment upon all to convince all the
ungodly of their unrighteousness And Peter saith The day of the Lord will come when the Heavens shall passe away and the Element shall melt with fervent heat and the Earth 〈…〉 up with a fervent heat 〈◊〉 who shall abide his coming oâ— who shall stand in his sight when this great God shall revenge himself upon his adversities Now take heed all ye Offendors for He the Lord hath appeared to you 〈◊〉 his one year 1650 your sorrows are coming as a Woman in travel for ye shall consume by an outward burning for his Wrath is kindled and who shall stand in his sight God is now about to change every condition that his own Object of wisdom and power may be seen 〈◊〉 that all the wisdom of the World may be dashed and every exaltation of the Creature dissolved that one man should not glory over another Where is strength where is honour where is riches where is pomp where is your outward glories They shall all pass away fade and decline At his appearing behold the Earth-liness of them shall burn and consume for God will destroy the beauty of them and it shall pass away as a scrole and the fashion of the World shall fade away Behold I send my Messenger and he shall prepare the way before me And the Lord whom ye seek shall suddenly come to his Temple by a called messenger which is the messenger of the Covenant But who this last messenger is we cannot justly tell but by conjecture it is he to whom God doth first appear to in this great mystery whose design is first answered of God I know who Embassadors neither can I find any lawfull calling but they of Christ and his Apostles which power and disciplying shall â—â—gâ—ily be renewed and set up again Behold he cometh against all you that call the proud happy to justifie iniquity and set up them that tempt God The Lord will come â—ear all them that covet an evil covetousness to their house to set their nest on high but let not any think to escape Gods hand or be free from this Earthquake for as the dayes of Noah were so shall his coming be for as in the dayes before the floud they were eating and drinking and giving in marriage and his wrath seized upon them and yet he cometh to his Temple that is to measure all things done contrary to his Law and Statutes Behold saith the Lord ye have changed my Ordinances and shewing of the Priests and that their hands were both guilty of blond in that they did buy and sell give and keep away his Church Rights and therefore he will suddenly come first to reform and then to restore all the breaches and desolations of his house saying I will come neer you to judgment First he will come to measure his Temple as if he should say My people are ye afflicted my poor Remnant let not your hearts be troubled believe in me and all things are possible for me to reduce and restore all again for I will make Jerusalem a cup of trembling to all thine enemies round about thee saying City house partition walls are ye broke down behold I will repair all your breaches for the Churches shall all come bending to your Church Beloved God-will bring back all her spiritual declinings and will recover the ancient work of his Temple in the sight of all the remnant of his people the ungodly shall see it too and all the Heathen that be left shall behold the great works of God â—lone in the earth for he cometh and Judah is his Tribe and he shall gather the people who is he that will engage himself for this cause of God to act in this new work of Righteousness Come ye simple-hearted of the Lord now ingage your selves your estates your substance to bring on this lively work of restoring Gods house that his latter Temple may be more glorious then all the former Away with your pride it is God himself that shall be exalted in your downfal I beseech you preach no more Christ upon the Crosse but boldly bear up his Crown for an Ensign to all the people for he is risen and behold he is coming and will be as a Refiners fire to try your spirits to bring you off your own rugged bottomes you that are so grounded on every Church-way and yet ignorant of that true way called Pathmus which is the foundation of Gods Temple and that is to unbowel your selves of all inward conspiracies Cleanse your hearts ye double minded it is not an outward giving up that can make you inwardly happy neither will it be an inward without the outward that can fully adorn your profession if ye will be Christs Disciples ye must fully give up and resign up soul and body state and substance and then ye shall be meet for his Kingdom otherwise ye cannot effectually lay this Temple foundation One will be ready to say I have married a wife Another may say I must go try a yoak of Oxen. A third may mournfully say with the Young-man in the Gospel I have great possessions and shall I give all up and this will be a tryal of thy patience and constancy to Christ for he will have all before thou canst be a builder in this new Work Thou must go out of all and make Christ thy free-hold and Him thy impropriation and lay down thy worldly honour at his feet for he is coming and will discover all thine hypocrisie to prove who is good silver and if thou dost not wholly give up to Christ look to it for his refining light will find thee but as reprobate coin and very foul for this will be the true Church whereunto every one shall give up For other Churches I know none nor any thing after the flesh your Churches are full of mixture and inconstancy and subject to differ in the Original and shall lie under a beastly power after the course of the Gentiles not yet come out from the people but lie under the veil not yet seeing that glorious liberty and fulnesse which doth now shine forth your Churches he hid under the ashes of the World come out of her bands câ—st out the bondwoman and her son that freedom may be in your borders that ye may throw up all and act in this new World it would be a rare thing to see but one faithful Restorer of his Temple I have looked on every side and cannot see one royal in this thing if they have outward yet not so in the inward I see many putting out their heads beholding this Work and fain would go on with it but not able by reason of slavish fear and needlesse doubtings take off their edge and damp their spirits as if one should say I would give up all but my wife is not willing Another may say Should I do it of my self A third may say I would fain see others begin And thus we stand gazing one upon another not worthy